Hello D.Hunt
    I'm not entirely sure I understood the thrust of your message, but if I
read it correctly, I must call you out on a few things.
    Are the questions, "who is asking?" "who is interpreting?", "who deserves
to interpret?" not legitimate questions?  Why does asking them constitute a
"witch hunt"?  Is there really such a climate of fear that "all of
anthropology" or "any type of research"  is threatened?
    I can only assume that there have been some cases of so called "PC" attacks
that call rationality into question. But the accusation of being PC has become
such common currency and it smacks of red baiting. Who is threatening whom,
here? When assumptions are challenged about racial, cultural or gender
construction (a phenomenon that is, in fact, remarkably recent) what really is
the landscape on which such challenges are issued? In raw numbers, who
runs/works in the dominant cultural, educational and scientific institutions?
What ideologies have historically held sway? If the challenges often come in
the form of confrontation, who could be suprized?  It seems to me that until we
regard this as discourse and act accordingly, finger pointing and name calling
will be about as much as we get out of it.
 
Aaron Goldblatt
Please Touch Museum
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